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The cuckoo in question is Veiko a friendly Finish student turned reluctant soldier. At the beginning of the film we see him chained to a rock with a rifle, a few rounds and some water, left for dead.
He eventually breaks free from the rock at around the same time Ivan a red army soldier evades an execution, punishment for political wrong-thought. They all end up taking refuge with a Lap woman called Anni who has been left sexually frustrated by the war stealing her husband some years earlier.
This is where the comedy ensues as a result of no common language between the main protagonist and a stark clash of cultures.
Ivan suffers from paranoia symptomatic of Stalin’s Russia and has a personality, which can only be described as emotionally malformed. Veiko on the other hand is progressive and intelligent in his attitudes, a bit of a seminal hippy really. Finally, there is Anni who feeds and nurses them both is a firebrand pragmatist who almost sees everything in terms of its calorific value. It is in Anni’s small farm that all three envisage and act out their hopes, dreams and desires with mixed consequences.
The Cuckoo gives us the viewer the chance to experience not only a great story well told but also almost a revelation in the setting of Lapland and its culture. This is a place within the EU where Native American style peoples, herd reindeer, live in tepee style dwellings and worship wolf gods under the influence of holistic hallucinogens. This is a fantastic look at a fascinating cultural phenomenon that has remained hitherto unknown to western audiences.
Last but by no means least The Cuckoo shows us a part of the second world war that is far less spectacular than for example Speilberg's Normandy and yet equally relevant.
The movie starts fast and doesn't give hints as to where it's going, the three main actors, two soldiers (one finnish and one russian) and a lapplander do not share a language so blather on in their own languages in the hope of communication, we as an audience see the humourous miscommunication in the subtitles and there are some really great comic situations as well.
The film is visually beautiful and full of life and essentially about people hearing what they want to hear regardless of the language it's in, by the people speaking different languages this is highlighted. the actors are great and really flesh out their respective cultures well.
Overall a good buy for those looking for a good foreign movie from the chilly north.
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